[News] Mass IT Outage

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Disaster Recovery... unless you whooshed me, in which case... nice one

No you're fine. Not being an office dweller I never knew.

 

[raymondo]

Imagine being the person who signed that one off for release. Knowing that you effectively shut down large chunks of the Western world, shutting down airports, access to healthcare, financial services.

Wow.

They'll write a book/film and be very rich... it's the way of the world

 

[Bry Nylon]

This is exactly the sort of global IT outage that I always believed Bensgrandad (RIP) was going to inadvertently trigger, every time he tried to re-install some programme or other on a second-hand laptop with the help of his brother-in-law and a spurious USB stick.

He'd be all over this.

 

[schmunk]

Someone has mentioned on this thread that Waitrose is cash only.

probable money laundering

 

[raymondo]

No you're fine. Not being an office dweller I never knew.

I am extremely happy to no longer be an office dweller working in IT.

 

[chickens]

They'll write a book/film and be very rich... it's the way of the world

They’re certainly going to have more free time than previously, I suspect.

 

[HeaviestTed]

I have been asked quite a few times to come out of retirement to help companies write dr/bc plans and review their strategies.

30+ years of experience building IBM systems from As400 to RS6000 and series recoveries and rebuilding

On another tack we used redspam not crowdstrike as the latter was known to not test their releases, like Microsoft and Apple who release updates knowing they have bugs and when customers found them they reported them and out came revisions.

I am glad o am out of this

In the insurance game?

I’m working with a manufacturer in New York and it is the first time I’ve seen an AS/400 outside of insurance

 

[raymondo]

Just chuckling at this bit of marketing on the Crowdstrike website:
"

62 minutes could bring your​

business down​

That’s the average time it takes an adversary to land and move laterally through your network. When your data, reputation, and revenue are at stake, trust the pioneer in adversary intelligence"

I think they beat that!!

 

[backson]

In the insurance game?

I’m working with a manufacturer in New York and it is the first time I’ve seen an AS/400 outside of insurance

Tower Hamlets council had them in the 90s, was my first job (on the development side rather than looking after the things)

 

[Flounce]

Crowdstrike shares down 15% Good time to buy?

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Crowdstrike shares down 30%. Good time to buy?

I'm assuming they are about to get sued into oblivion for negligence so probably not.

 

[Dave the OAP]

In the insurance game?

I’m working with a manufacturer in New York and it is the first time I’ve seen an AS/400 outside of insurance

A lot of our customers were finance houses and as400 and iseries machines were abundant

 

[Flounce]

I'm assuming they are about to get sued into oblivion for negligence so probably not.

Limited liability? Pretty sure that will be written into every contract

 

[beorhthelm]

Crowdstrike shares down 15% Good time to buy?

saw they've been down on some poor news/product before this morning (drowned in the news now). as above likely risk of being sued, even if doesn't come to much, then expect hit to earnings. stock will get beaten down bad. sell Crowdstrike, buy competitors.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Limited liability? Pretty sure that will be written into every contract

Can you imagine how much money this has caused firms to lose across the world? I doubt they will be allowed to get away with this with a slap on the wrist.

Once they've been sued, there will be the reputational damage as well. Who is going to want to touch them?

 

[Midget]

They’re certainly going to have more free time than previously, I suspect.

I dunno, they'll probably have job offers from Moscow/Beijing...

 

[Giraffe]

I dunno, they'll probably have job offers from Moscow/Beijing...

I assumed they'd already had those!

 

[Bodian]

So - that's why I had to pay cash on the ferry this morning! Wondered why the ticket office staff were looking harassed.

 

[Brovion]

It's a bit sobering that one single software update error by one Noddy (relatively speaking) outfit can cause so much disruption.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Day off today so been out and about. Some places still having issues with taking card payments but most were okay.